September 13, 2010

I left home a month ago today at 4-something in the morning. It's hard to believe that so much time has past. At the same time, though, it feels as if I've been here so much longer. It seems so normal to get up in the morning and hop in a rickshaw and go across town to ACM.

I'm still not used to not having internet all the time, though. It's strange that we've gotten so reliant on internet in so few years. I remember when e-mail was the new big thing that no one knew how to use, and now, we hardly go a day without checking our e-mails.

Today, Molly and I walked about a kilometer to the grocery store. ACM doesn't provide our lunches anymore, and we can't really go home for lunch, so we stocked up on stuff like Indian ramen noodles (called Maggi – they eat them with ketchup here), peanut butter, bread, and cheese (all the cheese here is either made with microbial rennet or marked 100% veg, so I can eat virtually any of it). We have a fridge and stove at ACM, so we can easily make sandwiches and noodles here for lunch. I got at least a week's worth of lunches for about six dollars.

My computer's been on the fritz lately. It dislikes the 220volt outlets. It gets a static buildup, and things just start to malfunction. Sometimes, it's the mouse that won't work. Sometimes the battery won't charge. Sometimes I can fix it by taking the battery out or unplugging it for a while. Sometimes, it just doesn't fix until it wants to. Today, under the instructions of online help after being unable to charge my battery for two days, I played the in-out game with the power-cord for fifteen minutes, and eventually, the charge took.

Today, I started translating The Llama Song into Latin. It's actually kind of pointless considering the general lack of coherence in that song, but pointed things are overrated.